Ahmadinejad has rejected Stone's offer to make a documentary about him, calling the helmer part of the "Great Satan" cultural establishment.
"It is right that this person is considered part of the opposition in the U.S., but opposition in the U.S. is a part of the Great Satan," Mehdi Kalhor, media adviser to the president told the Fars news agency.
Stone just doesn't get it:
"I have been called a lot of things, but never a great Satan. I wish the Iranian people well and only hope their experience with an inept, rigid ideologue president goes better than ours."
Like I've said:
They hate us, people. All of us. Not just the current administration. Not just the Red State citizens. Owning a bongo and tie-dyed shirts won’t save you. Nor will spouting sympathy for their cause. We’re all targets and they’ll dance over our graves if we let them.
Our jihadi enemies aren't strong on nuance, are they? They see lots of enemies, even within Islam. Why should Stone think he is special just because he hates our president?
But at least he provides our enemies with some laughs. As one former jihadi describes their reaction to the "why do they hate us" crowd like Stone:
When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network - a series of British Muslim terrorist groups linked by a single ideology - I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy.
Stone has chosen sides. It is too late to switch, I guess. He'll be honored just to be their victim.
